Chris Fowler gets it

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Yep. He's spot on.

Oct 26, 2025, 11:54 AM

The sinister part is the person talking is believable because we lack relativity to understand why he may be wrong. There are around 8 billion people alive today, and an estimated 100-110 billion who have ever died. Just look at a world population chart. It's always been very small until the past century, then it explodes. Makes sense, more people are currently living than have ever died.

What we can not comprehend after 6+ generations of medical science, vaccines, antibiotics, electricity, etc., is that for most of human history, consistently, 50% of people who were born, died before 20yo. That percentage rises exponentially as the age of death lowers to the infant level. This was mother nature keeping human populations in check, and world populations largely remained steady for thousands of years back. So people had far more children in the past, and far more deaths than we can comprehend happened in very early years of life, keeping populations low.

It's interesting, really. This animated population pyramid for South Korea explains why "developed countries" are all seeing population declines. Only third world countries, with life expectancies in the 50's, still exhibit the classic pyramid shape. In developed countries, the pyramid shape is dying out, or is gone.

Here is a chart for the US since 1950. You can watch the baby boom rise to the top as this pyramid starts around the baby boom. What's different, is over time, as the boomers age, the pyramid loses its shape, just like Korea has. And it will start to decline over time. Science smacked humanity in the face last century, as people raised by people raised by people were told, have kids, have many, they are needed on the farm, and half will die. As science came along and mitigated that problem, people adapted, having less kids, NEEDING less kids, WANTING less kids, as money and careers took precedent in developed countries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyFYftdF6D0

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Chris Fowler gets it

This would also be good on the legacy P&R board

Yep. He's spot on.

Its a sad place to be

Re: Its a sad place to be

Gets what? That people are gullible? Shocker.***

Re: Gets what? That people are gullible? Shocker.***

We gotta stop calling it AI***

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